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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-002056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VUZI"
cik: "0001463972"
company_name: "Vuzix Corp"
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:28:23.878400+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vuzix grants 789,546 RSUs to executives and management, subject to shareholder approval; to cancel 5.36M options

## Summary
- CEO Paul Travers gets 291,878 RSUs; CFO Grant Russell 118,211 RSUs; COO Peter Jameson 111,642 RSUs.
- 3M unvested options (Travers), 1.625M (Russell), and 270,000 (Jameson) from March 2021 grant to be surrendered and terminated.
- Total of 5,359,500 options granted on March 17, 2021 to be cancelled; up to 789,546 new RSUs granted.
- RSUs vest: 50% time-based after 3 years; remaining 50% up to 125% based on performance over next 3 years.
- RSU grants and option cancellations are conditioned upon shareholder approval at the 2025 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-002056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VUZI
- cik: 0001463972
- company_name: Vuzix Corp
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463972/000110465925002056/0001104659-25-002056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463972/000110465925002056/tm252240d1_8k.htm

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